Deputies: Man threatened to 'blow up' Bright House office

Jeffery Lauer was about 10 beers in around 5 a.m. Tuesday, and the sound on his TV was not working, according to court records.

So he called his cable service provider, Bright House Networks.

When he felt the person on the other end of the line wasn't being helpful he allegedly threatened to blow up the company's Orlando office, records show.

What he said was "off the cuff," according to records.

Lauer, 55, later told an Orange County deputy that he didn't really plan on attacking Bright House.

But he was arrested and is facing a charge of making a bomb threat, court records show.

The person on the other end of the line, who works for a third-party customer service company based in Canada, told deputies that Lauer had threatened to blow up the office three or four times, records show.

Lauer allegedly said he will "go down to the office and blow you [expletive] up," the employee told deputies.

As Lauer and the deputy waited in the Orange County Jail's intake area parking lot, Lauer asked if he could call his mother.

Because Lauer was in handcuffs, the deputy got Lauer's cell phone, dialed his mother, and put the call on speakerphone.

With the deputy standing next to him, Lauer told his mother that he had been arrested because he told the Bright House customer service representative that he would "come there and blow her up."